Olympic teams sports decided MLS flavor.

(Tuesday, August 15, 2000) -- United States under-23 menís coach Clive
Charles today announced his 18-player Olympic Team roster almost exactly one month from the team's first opening round
match of the Summer Olympic Games in Australia.

"These were all difficult decisions," said Charles, who has led the squad to a 7-4-1 overall record in 2000 matches.
"We've added three of the top players in the country and I really feel like we've got the best team possible heading over
to the Olympics."

Charles called in a defensive-minded trio of U.S. men's national-team stars for his three "overage" exceptions to the
Olympics under-23 limit for men. That includes Jeff Agoos, a staple of
three-time Major League Soccer champion D.C. United, Chris Armas, who is
widely regarded as the best defensive midfielder in MLS for the Chicago Fire, and
Frankie Hejduk, a speedy and energetic defender\midfielder currently with
German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen.

Agoos, who has been a member of the U.S. program since 1985, will have the chance to complete the soccer cycle by
adding a U-23 stint to his experience as a U-15, U-17, U-20 and full Men's National Team member. Although a member of the
1998 U.S. World Cup team, Agoos has yet to compete in a world championship of this magnitude. Since the inaugural season
of MLS in 1996, the 32-year-old, four-time MLS All-Star has been one of the top defenders in the league.

Armas, who has enjoyed great success under U.S. menís coach Bruce Arena
over the last two years, will play an important role in the midfield, as he does for the Fire and will continue to as the
full U.S. team undergoes World Cup qualifying. The native of Brentwood, N.Y., helped the Fire accomplish the rare feat of
winning both the U.S. Open Cup and MLS Cup in 1998.

Agoos and Armas lead a list of 14 MLS players on the 18-man roster, highlighting the huge impact that the five-year-old
professional league has had on the current Olympic team and marking a vast difference in the almost entirely collegiate
teams that represented the U.S. in 1992 and 1996.

Producing three-year veterans such as MLS Cup Ď99 "Most Valuable Player" Ben
Olsen (D.C. United) and 1998 U.S. Soccer "Male Youth Athlete of the Year"
Josh Wolff (Chicago Fire), along with first-year stars like goalkeeper
Adin Brown (Colorado Rapids), MLS and its Project-40 developmental program
have played a vital role in giving young American players the necessary pro experience to compete at similar levels as the
rest of the world.

Perennial MLS powers Chicago and D.C. lead the league with three players on the final squad.

Hejduk, the only player to have competed in a previous Olympiad, started all three matches and helped the U.S. to a
1-1-1 record at the 1996 Olympics as an under-23. After going on to star in MLS with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, the Cardiff,
Calif., native now heads a trio of European-based players that includes Leverkusen teammate and teenage scoring sensation
Landon Donovan, and versatile midfielder
John O'Brien, who competes for famed European club Ajax of Amsterdam.

The 18-year-old Donovan, who already has four goals and made an impressive 11 under-23 appearances in just over a year,
established scoring marks like no other U.S. player before him with 35 goals and 16 assists in 41 international contests
in two years of under-17 competition. Prior to being awarded the Golden Ball as the "Most Outstanding Player" at the FIFA
U-17 World Championship in New Zealand last November, the Redlands, Calif., native became the youngest U.S. player to sign
an overseas professional contract when he did so at age 16 with Leverkusen.

Denver, Colo., native Conor Casey, another teenager whose skills have
lifted him to the U-23 level, is the only player on the 18-man roster that is not a professional. Entering his sophomore
season under Charles at the University of Portland, the 6-foot-1 Casey has scored six goals and added four assists in 12
overall games for the U-23s in 2000, following his breakout freshman season in which he led the NCAA Division I in scoring
with 23 goals to go with seven assists.

Thirteen of the 18 players that helped the U.S. take second place in the six-team CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying
Tournament in April remain on the squad. Other than the three over-age players, defender
Evan Whitfield, midfielder
Joey DiGiamarino and alternate goalkeeper
Matt Napoleon are the only new additions that will be traveling to Sydney.

Notes: The menís Olympic competition is for under-23 national teams with three players allowed to exceed the age
limit. A third goalkeeper is kept on the roster (Matt Napoleon), but does not count against the 18-player limit. He can be
activated only if one of the two other keepers is sidelined by injury.